Films are emotions unraveled in images. Greater the bond between the images and the emotions of a story, greater the chance of a film impacting the audiences’ collective consciousness for a lifetime. Though multiple factors...
In December 1961, six months after the car accident in which he lost most of the eyesight of one eye, Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi smashed a brilliant century against England at Madras (now Chennai). Asked...
As a devoted follower of Mahatma Gandhi’s principles of truth and non-violence, I often wonder what the Mahatma would have opined about our Hindi film songs if he had been alive today? While he would...
Bhanwata–Kolyala is not easy to find on the map, not even for a resident of Rajasthan. So deep is it embedded within Sariska forest, that not many locals are even aware of its existence. But...
What is it that makes the Mohammed Rafi magic endure amongst listeners cutting across barriers of age, caste, creed, colour, gender and national boundaries even after forty-two years? Ascribing any one reason would be a...
Ranchi/Kolkata: In the battle of perception, Hemant Soren-led United Progressive Alliance defeated the opposition or more precisely Bharatiya Janata Party in Jharkhand on Monday.
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Kolkata: On the 91st anniversary of Gandhiji's historic March from Sabarmati to Dandi in coastal Gujarat for Salt Satyagraha to defy the arbitrary and...
